lunes, 25 de julio de 2016

On Saturday July 23 I
had the chance to attend the biggest pop culture convention in the United States,
Comic con at San Diego convention center. I was super excited because the only
time I attended before was in 2008, and the following years I couldn’t get a
ticket until this year! The first time I attended I was looking for anime
related stuff, but this year I looked for books related stuff. I made my
schedule with the signings I wanted to attend, fewer that the ones I actually
got.

When I entered the exhibit hall the first thing I did was
to go to the Fierce Reads booth for
the signing of Marissa Meyer at 9:45 am. Few minutes before it started, the
staff made us line up, I was the fourth person and we went with her in pairs.
Marissa Meyer was super kind, she signed all my books of The Lunar Chronicles, the staff took me a pic with her, and she gave
me a signed poster and sampler of Wiresand Nerve. Because I said I was from Mexico and I brought all my books,
they told the staff to give me extra bookmarks because I was a “big fan”. I was afraid she wouldn’t sign
all my books; I had read on internet that sometimes there is a limit of one or
two books per person.

My Lunar Chronicles books signed <3

After that I went to the booth of Mysterious Galaxy, next to the FierceReads one, to buy the book The Kissof Deception of Mary E. Pearson, because her signing was at 11:00 am. After
buying it I wandered in the nearby booths, I bought Journal 3 of Gravity Falls,
but I didn’t get the wristband for Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls creator) signing. Anyways, the journal is wonderful
and I love it.

Alex Hirsch during his signing session, and the Journal 3.

I don’t exactly recall what I did next, or in what order,
so I just tell what I did but not when.

I went to the signing of Mary E. Pearson at 11:00 am; she
signed my book and gave me a signed poster of her upcoming book. At the Mysterious Galaxy booth there was
another signing going on, it was Shanon Messenger, so I bought her book Keeper of the Lost Cities, and she
signed it. At the Disney booth there was the signing of Eliza Wass, she was
giving away her debut book, The CresswellPlot, and signing it.

After all that I rested a bit and ate something. When I returned
to the exhibit hall I bought the whole manga of Orange by Ichigo Takano (you
can read my review here).

I wandered through the anime booths, I found a k-pop
one with signed CDs, but there wasn’t any of my interest. Then I returned to
the Fierce Reads booth for the
signing of Leigh Bardugo, so I bought her book Shadow and Bone, the first one in The Grisha trilogy. She signed my book and a poster of Crooked Kingdom, I also got a sampler of
that book.

The last thing I did before going home was to attend the
second signing of Marissa Meyer at 5:00 pm, I was about to ask about it when
people hurried to line up, so did I. The line was really long, I was two aisles
away, and behind me there were a lot more people. I was afraid I wouldn’t get
my copy of Heartless, but I was
lucky, I got it, and Marissa signed it, and I also asked her to sign three
bookmarks she sent me last year.

In the end I was extremely tired with a lot of heavy
books, my back hurts a lot… well almost my whole body hurts. I must say that
although I couldn’t explore the whole exhibit hall, I’m really happy because I got
the autographs I wanted… that were only four but I ended up with a lot more
books signed. What truly made me my day were the autographs of Marissa Meyer,
and that I got Heartless, those were
my main goals of the day <3